Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013)
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Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 4
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Critic Reviews: 8
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MONEY FOR NOTHING is a feature-length documentary about the Federal Reserve - made by a Team of AFI, Sundance, and Academy Award winners - that seeks to unveil America's central bank and its impact on our economy and our society. Current and former top economists, financial historians, and investors and traders provide unprecedented access and take viewers behind the curtain to debate the future of the world's most powerful financial institution. Digging beneath the surface of the 2008 crisis,
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (4)
Money For Nothing lacks the rush of Rush, but you still might find your pulse racing and your blood boiling by the film's end.
Top CriticThe subtitle declares rather than alludes. It is what it is, as Bill Belichick (that gridiron Ben Bernanke) would say, bluntly informing what the movie is about.
Thumbing through this flip-book of experts - some seem better credentialed than others - can be a blur, but their cautioning about a Greek-style government debt bubble is hard to ignore.
A thoughtful, detailed chronicle of the Fed's origins, responsibilities and shifting monetary policies.
A Washington-centric wonk-fest, with appearances by a parade of economists, pundits and former governors of the Federal Reserve Board, it's academic, insider-y and dry to the point of dull at times.
In trying to convince us that the Fed is powerful, Mr. Bruce perhaps makes it too powerful. Lots of forces go into shaping the economy. To paint it as a one-man show seems oversimplified.
It's immensely educational...and dry as a soda cracker.
There's a gut-punch sadness to the movie -- a melancholic dawning. While enlightening as it relates specifically to the Fed, its chief lesson is evident in other walks of life: money talks, and a well-heeled elite class has a private line.
It's generally compelling, even if the film seems to target the financially savvy more than the working-class folks who are most affected by the events it chronicles.
The film would seem a likelier candidate for a PBS slot than a theatrical release, particularly in the first history-heavy section. Nor does Bruce offer much by way of specific, novel solutions.
It resembles a decent academic lecture on the subject...interesting, if hardly scintillating.
...while director Jim Bruce's film is thorough, and rich in context and detail...one can't help but think it's another small rock being throw into a big ocean that nothing can seemingly can stop, even though many are aware of what needs to be done.
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